metic
/met-ik/US // ˈmɛt ɪk //UK // (ˈmɛtɪk) //
缜密,缜密的,会见,缜密性
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
Examples
The informer, if a slave or a metic, shall be rewarded by having the article made over to him.
The freed man, when liberated, does not become a citizen, but is only a non-citizen or metic.
A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.
It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.
Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen.
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